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Title: The Traveller [Who travels alone with his eyes on the heights] Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [More Titles by Wilcox] Reply to Rudyard Kipling's "He travels the fastest who travels alone."
For courage goes down at the set of the sun, He speeds but to grief though full gaily he ride Who travels alone without lover or friend Though great be his winnings and high be his goal, Life's one gift of value to him is denied It is easy enough in this world to make haste For life is a poem to leisurely read, Oh! vain his achievement and petty his pride [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |